Suddenly Pat heard a faint crackle on a dried leaf.

XI. Swiftly rose they, and the corse surrounded, Spreading out a pall into the air; And the sharp and sudden crackling sounded Mournfully to all the watchers there.

From all along the crest burst the hard, sharp crackle of Remington fire.

There was only an occasional crackle of the dying fire.

Now he heard a cheery, faint crackling from the house and a rosy glow pervaded the gloom beyond the doorway.

A faint breeze brought the tiny crackling of the wheat.

Once he was startled by a faint sigh coming from a horse looking over a hedge, and the hedgerows were full of mysterious little cracklings.

All was silent and motionless, except the fierce crackling of the fire; except a curious, intermittent, upward twitching of the corner of Ray's lips.

But her laughter, and the opinion it represented, were to him the merest crackling of thorns under a pot.

It seemed that it would be impossible even to put a nose out of the warm rooms without hearing a sudden crackle, and seeing it drop to the ground, and the ears after it.

All night the British big guns had been pouring a steady stream of high explosive shells into the German positions, great detonations overlapping one another like the rapid crackling of machine-gun fire and swelling into a mighty volume of thunder that shook the earth and stunned the senses.

Then came the familiar crackle of an open fire, and Kirk was piloted into the delicious cozy depths of a big chair beside the hearth.

my unspeakable tortures,my infernal agonies have commenced!the diabolical shouts and shrieks of the fiendish spectatorsthe crackling and hissing of my tender fleshthe bursting of my over swollen tendons, muscles, and arteries, with the out-gush of the crimson vital stream from every pore,I hear,I see,I feel,and in my morbid imagination, die many deaths in one!

There was that terrific crash as of the smashing of a world of china, the fierce crackle of the machine-guns, and then the boom of the cannon from under our very feet...

There was a moment's pause broken only by the intermittent crackle of firing from above.

Then think of men, leaving the trenches at dusk, going back about a mile and a half, and bringing sundry large and heavy boxes up to the trenches, pausing now and again for a rest, and ignoring the intermittent crackling of rifle fire in the darkness, and the sharp "phit" of bullets hitting the mud all around.

There is a quiet, steady, unobtrusive, crisp, not loud, but very knowing little creeping crackle that is tolerably intelligible.

" There was a loud crackling among the underbrush several hundred yards away.

By one o'clock in the morning, all was still except the melancholy crackling of the flames.

The sounds I have mentionedthe crackling of twigs, the roll of a pebble, the sound of some rustle in the dead leaves, or creeping creature on the grasswere audible when you listened, all mysterious enough when your mind is disengaged, but to me cheering now as signs of the livingness of nature, even in the death of the frost.

With the approach of midday a light wind had arisen, and now, wandering northward, it tugged at the pony's long, shaggy mane and tail, set each individual hair of the little beast vibrating in unjustified ferocity; and, drifting aimlessly on, stirred the brittle grass stalks at the man's feet with the muffled crackling of a far-distant prairie fire.

Once he was startled by a faint sigh coming from a horse looking over a hedge, and the hedgerows were full of mysterious little cracklings.

The canes burnt like shavings, exploding with a perpetual crackle at each joint.

She sat there for a while, cold with disappointment, listening to the tearing open of envelopes and the pleasant crackle of thick letter-paper.

In a flame of white fire, tongued and sheeted, streaked with gulfs of black, and most terribly roaring, it rose with a prodigious crackling of walls and roof towards the sky.